O What A Savior

I am a recovering co-dependent and I have/am letting go but only through the grace of Jesus Christ. Co-dependency results from long term exposure to a dysfunctional family system. Its root is from an unmet need for love and security. God instituted the family as the primary environment through which those needs are met. When these God given needs are blocked, family members often emerge with a lack of objectivity, a warped sense of responsibility, a propensity to control and be controlled by others, feelings of hurt, anger, guilt and loneliness. Although many co-dependents outwardly appear “on top of the world,” their inner life is often governed by a deep sense of shame and low self esteem. Rescuing, caretaking and controlling are central characteristics of co-dependency.

Symptoms of Codependency

1. Difficulty identifying and expressing feelings
2. Difficulty forming or maintaining close relationships
3. Low self esteem
4. Profound sense of shame, anxiety, and guilt
5. Constant need for approval
6. Perfectionism
7. Extreme need to please
8. Compulsive need to rescue, “caretake,” and control
9. Feeling overly responsible for the actions of others
10. Compulsive or addictive behavior relating to food, sex, alcohol, drugs, smoking, etc.

Let us look at emerging and recovering from codependency………
The Scripture states often and clearly that a believer has tremendous worth and value. Passages such as Romans 8:1,17,37; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 2:10; Colossians 3:12; Peter 2:9-10 and many others describe our new identities in Christ. God loves us Unconditionally!! He has Accepted us as His children. We have been Forgiven and granted Eternal purpose! Many codependent believers can articulate these truths but do not Experience them. WHY?? Productive changes require GOD’s WORK, GOD’s POWER, His people and time. Only the active work of the Holy Spirit can convince us that spiritual truths Supersede past experience. Often, this occurs in the environment of loving, honest and encouraging relationships with other believers. Finally, we need Time! Our inaccurate
perceptions of God and ourselves took time to develop; they will take time to change.

What is needed is a hard look at the ugly reality of codependency, coupled with profound biblical solutions and solid biblical processes. Man can examine and analyze the pain until he is blue in the face but that gives little hope for progress. We need God’s grace, love, mercy and acceptance to dispel the enemy’s lies with God’s Truth. Man can do us no justice without the divine intervention of Jesus Christ. I pray that anyone who reads this, that the eyes of their hearts be opened and that God reveals Himself to them. By the name, blood, and power of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen

Letting Go
To let go doesn’t mean to stop caring,
It means I can’t do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off,
It’s realization that I can’t control another.
To let go is not to enable,
But allow learning from natural consequences.
To let go is to admit powerlessness,
Which means the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to try to change or blame another,
I can only change myself.
To let go is not to care for,
But to care about.
To let go is not to fix,
But to be supportive.
To let go is not to judge,
But to allow another to be a human being.
To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes,
But to allow others to effect their own outcomes.
To let go is not to be protective;
It is to permit another to face reality.
To let go is not to deny,
But to accept.
To let go is not to nag, scold, or argue,
But to search out my own shortcomings and to correct them.
To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires,
But to take each day as it comes.
To let go is not to criticize and regulate anyone,
But to try to become what dream I can be.
To let go is not to regret the past,
But to grow and live for the future.
To let go is to fear less and love more!!

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. ~Robert H. Schuller


Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley


God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ~St. Augustine


Young man, young man, your arm’s too short to box with God. ~James Weldon Johnson


God understands our prayers even when we can’t find the words to say them. ~Author Unknown


What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell


A man with God is always in the majority. ~John Knox


Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. ~Victor Hugo


You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. ~Author Unknown


Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. ~Author Unknown


I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t. ~Jules Renard


A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. ~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain


The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay


God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. ~Teresa of Avila


God’s last name is not “Dammit.” ~Author Unknown


Once one has seen God, what is the remedy? ~Sylvia Plath, “Mystic”


As the poet said, “Only God can make a tree” - probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~Woody Allen


Clearly, God is a Democrat. ~Patrick Caddell


God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. ~Mark Twain


But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937


No matter how much I prove and prod,
I cannot quite believe in God;
But oh, I hope to God that He
Unswervingly believes in me.
~E.Y. Harburg, attributed


People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him. ~Pearl Bailey


How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960


God’s will is not an itinerary, but an attitude. ~Andrew Dhuse


Let God’s promises shine on your problems. ~Corrie Ten Boom


How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? ~Woody Allen, “Selections from the Allen Notebooks,” Without Feathers, 1975


I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me. ~Author Unknown


By night, an atheist half believes in God. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts


Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon’s that “a little philosophy inclineth a man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.” At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram… he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men’s minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them. ~George Santayana


You found God? If nobody claims him in thirty days, he’s yours! ~Author Unknown


When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence


God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa


We strive to be God’s worthy audience. ~Candea Core-Starke


I wear a coat of angels’ breath and warm myself with His love. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche


I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ~Quentin Crisp


Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Diana Robinson


Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown


When we can’t piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together. ~Amethyst Snow-Rivers


They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. ~Emily Dickinson


If you don’t know what’s meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout. ~Martin H. Fischer


Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk to him - you try too hard, friend - drop to your knees and listen to him, he’ll hear you better that way. ~Ever Garrison


God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. ~E.M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, 1973


It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him. ~Joseph Joubert


Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~Garth Brooks


God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down. ~H. Beerbohm-Tree


Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ~Anatole France, Le jardin d’Epicure


How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


God enters by a private door into each individual. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. ~Leo Buscaglia


God is the perfect poet. ~Robert Browning


God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. ~Saint Augustine


God is not the name of God, but an opinion about Him. ~Pope Xystus I, The Ring


God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine. ~David Nicholas


“What do you think of God,” the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, “He’s not a think, he’s a feel.” ~Paul Frost


I feel most ministers who claim they’ve heard God’s voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it’s really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation. ~Rev. Jerry Falwell


God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. ~Jean Paul Richter


All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
~Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, 1734


Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else. ~Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History


Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. ~Alfred North Whitehead


We can never escape God’s lovely essence. ~Sonnett Branche


Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God. ~Augustine


Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are. ~Erik Satie


Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to God for a faith lift. ~Author Unknown


There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.” ~C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1943


We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963


Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Really. ~Lenny Bruce, “Religions Inc.,” in The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen, 1967


Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. ~Christina Rossetti


Life is God’s novel. Let him write it. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer


You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God. ~Austin O’Malley


When you knock, ask to see God - none of the servants. ~Henry David Thoreau


Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God’s laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. ~Martin H. Fischer


Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself. ~Miguel de Unamuno


Most people wish to serve God - but only in an advisory capacity. ~Author Unknown


I’ve been hiding from God, and I’m appalled to find how easy it is. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966


The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers. ~Martin H. Fischer


A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give Him cash. ~Robert E. Harris, Laugh with the Circuit Rider


It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God. ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937


To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books


So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn’t, He is behaving like God. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960


There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. ~Blaise Pascal


Don’t look for God where He is needed most; if you didn’t bring Him there, He isn’t there. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966


God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916


I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass


Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. ~Malcolm Muggeridge


We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. ~Malcolm de Chazal


‘T is heaven alone that is given away,
‘T is only God may be had for the asking;…
~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848


We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960


How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. ~Leo Tolstoy, Last Diaries, 1960


No pillow so soft as God’s promise. ~Author Unknown


The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966


For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. ~Peace Pilgrim


Some people talk about finding God - as if He could get lost. ~Author Unknown


I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk. ~John Marcellus Huston


For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet…. Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis


I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will - I see God everywhere! ~Jean Favre


Is man one of God’s blunders, or is God one of man’s blunders? ~Friedrich Nietzsche


I believe in God; I just don’t trust anyone who works for him. ~Author Unknown


I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. ~Voltaire


All that I have seen teaches me to trust God for all I have not seen. ~Author Unknown


“I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all,” Teddy said. “It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean. ~J.D. Salinger, “Teddy,” 1954


He who kneels before God can stand before anyone. ~Author Unknown


Peace on the outside comes from knowing God on the inside. ~Author Unknown


God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. ~Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886


Hunting God is a great adventure. ~Marie DeFloris


My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ~Christopher Morley


God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper. ~R. Buckminster Fuller, No More Secondhand God, 1963


Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960


God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. ~Timaeus of Locris


Some people always sigh in thanking God. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


God, that dumping ground of our dreams. ~Jean Rostand, Carnets d’un Biologiste, 1962


If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? ~Art Hoppe


If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful. ~Meriel Stelliger


Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. ~Julian Huxley


God - the John Doe of philosophy and religion. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927


When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. ~Author Unknown


Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all. ~Catherine Marshall, Christy, 1967


If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ~Voltaire


I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn’t seem to matter. ~Christopher Morley, Inward Ho!, 1923


Don’t question God, for He may reply: “If you’re so anxious for answers, come up here.” ~Author Unknown


I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. ~Mary Gardiner Brainard


Availability is better than ability for God. ~Author Unknown


Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties. ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862


God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator. ~Elie Faure, L’Esprit des formes, 1927


Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. ~Eugene O’Neill, The Great God Brown, 1926


Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God. ~Author Unknown


If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved? ~Author Unknown


I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. ~William Ralph Inge


When we put our cares in His hands, He puts His peace in our hearts. ~Author Unknown


Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well. ~John Greenleaf Whittier


Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord! ~Author Unknown


Be God or let God. ~Author Unknown


I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. ~Carl Jung


God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. ~Alfred Jarry, Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll Pataphysicien, 1911


Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there’s no room left for worry thoughts. ~Howard Chandler Christy


I believe in the sun even if it isn’t shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent. ~Author Unknown


God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary. ~Scarlett Bene


Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter. ~Author Unknown


No God, no peace. Know God, know peace. ~Author Unknown

Why Christians ARE NOT FREE

1. BROKENESS—
Haven’t come to the end of self and have confidence in their own resources and abilities. A good indication is when they say, “Tell me what to do!”
2. UNFORGIVENESS—
# 1 way Satan robs us of our freedom!! Most have unresolved anger. Forgiveness is God’s only way to deal with it. Unforgiveness = bondage.
3. DO NOT ACCEPT THEMSELVES JUST THE WAY THEY ARE—
Need to realize that God accepts them just the way they are and forgive themselves and accept themselves.
4. TRYING TO GET FEELINGS TO LINE UP WITH THE TRUTH—
Which will never happen because freedom is experienced when we live by faith in the truth, regardless of our feelings.
5. FAIL TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN FLESH AND THE REAL YOU—
The flesh Constantly wars against the Spirit, but that is NOT who we are….we are not addicts, perfectionists, anorexics, bulimics, gamblers, workaholics, codependents, etc.
6. AN INADEQUATE UNDERSTANDING OF GRACE—
Don’t know they are dead to the law and everything is permissible and are still trying to perform and measure up to get their acceptance and worth.
7. WRONG CONCEPT OF GOD—
Don’t know that God accepts them as they are and has not changed as a result of their sin and failure. All God wants to do is LOVE US! He never changes!
8. NEVER APPROPIATED THEIR TRUE IDENTITY IN CHRIST—
It is just information to them and/or are still holding on to a false identity in the flesh. We always act consistently with how we perceive ourselves.
9. HAVE NOT LEARNED TO RESIST SATAN—
Do not understand spiritual warfare and that Satan was defeated at the cross and we have authority over him and the demonic through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
10. HAVE NOT LEARNED TO DISCIPLINE THEIR MINDS—
No consistent victory unless we take every thought captive to Christ and renew our minds by thinking on what is true, noble, pure, right, lovely, admirable, excellent, or praiseworthy, etc.

“Christ having made us gloriously FREE—stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.”
(Galatians 5:1)

Freedom in Christ Conference/GraceLife Ministries

The following timeline of Christianity summarizes some of the most important events in Christianity since its founding about 2,000 years ago. (Events in light grey are non-religious events included for historical context.)

c. 4 BC	Birth of Jesus
c. 26 AD	John the Baptist begins ministry
c. 27 AD	Jesus begins ministry
c. 30 AD	Crucifixion of Jesus
c. 35	Conversion of Paul
c. 44	Martyrdom of James
c. 46-48	Paul’s first missionary journey
c. 49	Council of Jerusalem
c. 50-52	Paul’s second missionary journey
c. 51-52	First and Second Thessalonians written
c. 53-57	Paul’s third missionary journey
c. 57	Letter to the Romans written
c. 59-62	Paul imprisoned in Rome
c. 60	Andrew martyred by crucifixion in Achaia (Greece).
c. 66-67	Second Timothy written
c. 68	Martyrdom of Paul
70	Fall of Jerusalem
c. 90-95	John exiled on island of Patmos
c. 95	Book of Revelation written
c. 96	Clement of Rome’s Letter to the Corinthians written
c. 120	Didache written
202	Christians persecuted under Septimus Severus
211	Christians tolerated under Emperor Antoninus Caracalla
222	Christians favored Emperor Alexander Severus
230	Origen’s On First Principles
235	Christians persecuted under Emperor Maximin the Thracian
238	Christians tolerated under Emperor Gordian III
244	Christians favored under Emperor Philip the Arabian
251	Cyprian’s Unity of the Catholic Church
254	Death of Origen
303	Diocletian orders burning of Christian books and churches
312	Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity
313	Edict of Milan establishes official toleration of Christianity
325	Council of Nicea
336	Death of Constantine
354	Birth of Augustine
367	Athanasius lists all 27 books of NT
379	Basil the Great dies
380	Christianity made official religion of Roman Empire
381	Council of Constantinople
386	Augustine converts to Christianity
389	Gregory of Nazianzus dies
395	Gregory of Nyssa dies
c. 400	Jerome’s Vulgate (translation of the Greek Bible into Latin)
407	John Chrysostom dies
411	Council of Carthage condemns Donatists
417	Pope Innocent I condemns Pelagianism
420	Death of Jerome
430	Death of Augustine
431	Council of Ephesus
451	Council of Chalcedon
787	Second Council of Nicea
950	Olga of Russia converts to Christianity
1054	Great Schism between East and West
1093	Anselm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
1095	Council of Clermont: Pope Urban II proclaims First Crusade
1098	Crusaders take Antioch from Turks
1099	Crusaders recapture Jerusalem from Turks
1122	Concordat of Worms
1141	Peter Abelard condemned
1144	Fall of Edessa (crusader state)
1187	Fall of Jerusalem to Turks
1215	Fourth Lateran Council
1309	"Babylonian Captivity" (until 1377)
1337	Hundred Years’ War (until 1453)
1378	Great Western Schism (until 1423)
1409	Council of Pisa
1413-14	Lollard rebellion
1415	Council of Constance. Martyrdom of Jan Hus.
1420	Crusade against Hussites
1431	Joan of Arc martyred
1431-49	Council of Basel
1438-45	Council of Ferrara-Florence
1453	Fall of Constantinople to Turks
1478	Spanish Inquisition founded by Ferdinand and Isabella
1483	Birth of Martin Luther
1492	Expulsion of Jews from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella
1505	Luther becomes a monk
1517	Luther posts 95 Theses
1521	Luther excommunicated
1530	Augsburg Confession
1534	Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy
1536	Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
1541	Colloquy of Regensburg
1555	Peace of Augsburg
1559	Elizabeth I’s Act of Uniformity
1590	Michelangelo completes the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome
1609	Baptist Church founded by John Smyth
1611	King James (Authorized) Version of the Bible produced
1729	Beginnings of Methodism, led by John Wesley
1738	John Wesley feels his "heart strangely warmed" during a reading of Luther’s preface to Romans on Aldersgate Street in London
1775	American Wars of Independence begin
1783	America wins independence from Britain
1793	Louis XVI executed
1797	Second Awakening begins
1798	Pope Pius VI is prisoner of France
1799	Schleiermacher writes Speeches
1801	Cane Ridge Revival
1804	Napoleon becomes emperor
1807	Hegel writes Phenomenology of the Spirit
1808	French occupy Rome
1810	Mexico wins independence
1812-14	British-American War
1814	Reorganization of the Jesuits
1816	American Bible Society established
1822	Schleiermacher writes Christian Faith
1826	American Society for the Promotion of Temperance founded
1830	Joseph Smith produces Book of Mormon
1834	Spanish Inquisition officially abolished
1838	Abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean
1841	David Livingstone to Africa
1845	Methodists and Baptists split over the issue of slavery
1846	Pope Pius IX (until 1878)
1854	Dogma of Immaculate Conception of Mary
1859	Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
1861-65	American Civil War
1861	Presbyterians divide over the issue of slavery
1869	First Vatican Council
1870	Dogma of Papal Infallibility
1872	Moody begins preaching
1875	Mary Baker Eddy writes Science and Health
1882	Neitzsche declares "God is dead"
1895	Five Fundamentals
1900	Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams
1906	Azusa Street revival
1908	Henry Ford introduces the Model T
1910	World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh
1914	Assemblies of God founded
1914-18	World War I
1917	Russian Revolution
1919	Prohibition passed into law
1925	Scopes "Monkey" trial
1932	Barth’s Church Dogmatics
1939	Hitler invades Poland and sparks WWI
1945	Nag Hammadi Library discovered in Egypt; US drops atomic bombs on Japan
1947	India wins independence from U.K.
1948	World Council of Churches founded
1950	Papal encyclical Humani generis
1956	First issue of Christianity Today
1960	Birth control pill approved by FDA
1961	First human in space Papal encyclical Mater et Magistra
1962-65	Second Vatican Council
1963	MLK’s "I Have a Dream" speech
1968	Papal encyclical Humanae vitae
1969	First man on the moon
1971	Intel introduces the microprocessor
1973	Roe vs. Wade
1987-88	Televangelist scandals
1989	First woman ordained in an apostolic-succession church (the Protestant Episcopal church). Fall of the Berlin Wall.
1997	Birth of the internet

Sources

1. Earle E. Cairns, Christianity Through the Centuries (Zondervan, 1996).
2. Justo Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity (Prince Press, 1999).
3. Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of Christianity, Vol. I: to A.D. 1500 (4th ed., Prince Press, 2000).
4. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service, 2004.

Disclaimer: The Real Church is THE BODY OF CHRIST
the CHRISTIAN’S OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
and not a “Building” but this Post will focus on the Building
because thats one of the main Places people go to Worship
and build with fellow Believers….

Going to Church is not what Saves anybody
but i encourage you all to find a Good BIBLE BASED CHURCH
and to get Involved in Ministry…. And now The Post*

At 1 point or another, I’m sure all of us have heard somebody say ——
“I don’t need to go to Church” to be saved
or to have a relationship with GOD…

Well you don’t have to go to Church To be saved
or to have a relationship With GOD…

BUT YOU SHOULD WANT TO!!!!!!

I mean something is not right
If we have no desire to go to Church…

I mean most people work 5 days a week
And it seems like we do everything else all week long —-

So why are people so hassled to give a Sunday Morning to GOD..

I realize some Churches might not teach the right Doctrines
or maybe that particular Church is not right for you

BUT you shouldn’t use that as an excuse
To never go back to Church…

If anything look for another one…

I mean, This is not the cave man age anymore
There’s Churches everywhere!!

And As CHRISTian’s we could use the fellowship,

think of it like this
If your a yankee fan, than you might
Go to a yankee game to see the yankees
and to be around other people who are into the yankees! Lol

Well guess what, Church is
(Or atleast should be) a place
Where us CHRISTian’s gather together
To give Praise, to learn more about GOD
And to see what GOD is doing in The Church
as well as in the lives of the people Who go there….

And WE should yearn to be in that type of environment
so don’t let people rr certain Churches discourage you
From going to Church…

But don’t just take my word for it
Let’s see what THE BIBLE has to say about it…

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(Hebrews 10)
23″ LET US HOLD UNSWERVINGLY
TO THE HOPE WE PROFESS,
FOR HE WHO PROMISED IS FAITHFUL.

24″ AND LET US CONSIDER HOW WE
MAY SPUR ONE ANOTHER ON
TOWARD LOVE AN GOOD DEEDS.

25″ LET US NOT GIVE UP
MEETING TOGETHER,
AS SOME ARE IN THE HABIT OF DOING,
BUT LET US ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER ———
AND ALL THE MORE AS YOU SEE
THE DAY APPROACHING.